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Catherine McGuire

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Professor of AI/Tech, Gordon School of Business, Swiss Institute of Artificial Intelligence

Catherine McGuire is a Professor of Computer Science and AI Systems at the Gordon School of Business, part of the Swiss Institute of Artificial Intelligence (SIAI). She specializes in machine learning infrastructure and applied data engineering, with a focus on bridging research and large-scale deployment of AI tools in financial and policy contexts. Based in the United States (with summer/winter in Berlin and Zurich), she co-leads SIAI’s technical operations, overseeing the institute’s IT architecture and supporting its research-to-production pipeline for AI-driven finance.

Catherine McGuire

AI-integrated courses can handle routine questions and free teachers for higher-value work Well-designed course bots cut response time without hurting learning quality The real policy issue is how to govern AI, not whether to use it

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Systems outpace locations for productivity Remote readiness secures top talent Future work demands digital infrastructure The shift in how we work isn't up for debate anymore; it's about having the right resourc

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Femicide risk is misread when key population variables are left out Missing data distorts which policies appear to work Better models are needed to target prevention effectively Here's something that should make us rethi

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World models let AI build an internal map of reality to simulate and plan They move systems beyond prediction toward reasoning and transfer Grasping world models is now essential for future AI education and policy

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Grid capacity now limits economic growth more than energy supply China is modernizing faster than the United States Transmission, not generation, is the next policy frontier The difference between China's booming data networks an

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Physical AI moves intelligence from screens into systems that act in the real world In education, AI shifts from a tool to shared infrastructure with new governance risks The policy challenge is managing embodied intelligence at institutional scale

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Multinational R&D specialization routes research, engineering, and production to best-fit locations Heckscher–Ohlin logic links talent hubs with supplier clusters and scalable manufacturing Schools should buy for resilience and upgrades, favoring evidence-backed, diversified supply chains

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AI in education needs compute; cooling drives water, power, and trust costs Require verified standards for data center water cooling, power, and heat reuse Site compute in low-water regions and reuse heat to scale AI responsibly Operatin

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AI is turning “search” into a default tutor in schools Antitrust helps, but it moves too slowly for education Open standards and portability keep schools from lock-in Competition policy in the age of AI is now education policy: It must influence how learning tools are acquired, integrated, and changed—not simply penalize dominant companies. As of December 2025, Google held approximately 90.8% of the global search market, demonstrating its central role in how people find answers. However, the nature of search is changing.

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Orbital data centers could ease power and cooling limits on Earth The costs and climate trade-offs are still unclear Education should set rules now before orbit becomes a new dependency Global data centers consumed roughly 415 TW

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Security industrial policy now shapes what schools can access and teach Education must build resilience without shutting down openness Strategy will fail without skills pipelines and smart campus rules By October 15, 20

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Morale—not gear or term—decides deterrence Fair, transparent rules and real training build buy-in Enforce fast, honor civil service, beat disinfo Here's a number that should worry any defense minister: 16%.

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AI video streaming is mainstream; tools are easier, directing still matters Without rights, provenance, and QC, slop scales and trust falls Train hybrids and set standards to gain speed without losing story Back in D

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LLMs slash coordination costs in teams Design- and model-minded co-create, instantly Protect diversity with drafts, provenance, human review Every second, a new developer is signing up for GitHub.

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AI data centers drive Himalayan hydropower Buildout deepens China–India water tensions Demand 24/7 clean, redundant AI power China is betting big on hydropower to fuel a new era of AI and digital growth.

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Humanoid robot limitations endure: touch, control, and power fail in the wild Hype beats reality; only narrow, structured tasks work Fund core research—tactile, compliant actuation, power—and use proven task robots We don't

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AI today is pattern-matching, not reasoning—resist AGI hype Redesign assessments for explanation, sources, and uncertainty Procure on outcomes and risk logs; keep humans in charge The core challenge facing schools this year

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Use space data centers to ease Earth’s compute and water strain—start with education Run low-latency classroom inference in LEO; keep training and sensitive data on Earth Pilot with strict SLAs, life-cycle audits, and debris plans before scaling

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Factory tours scaled US–Japan know-how Aerospace: from licenses to composite wings Open collaboration with firm research security In the late 1950s and early 1960s, 400 to 500 Japanese firms sent managers on organ

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AI tools exclude people through missing data and bugs Count “no-decision” cases and use less-exclusionary methods with human review Set exclusion budgets, fix data flows, and publish exclusion rates A quiet fact sets

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